Wildland Fire Air Quality Tools

WFDSS Integrated Tools v0.9 (Beta Test)

STATUS: IMPORTANT UPDATE 2/6/13 : THIS PAGE IS BEING REDESIGNED AND REIMPLEMENTED FOR THE 2013 WESTERN WILDFIRE SEASON.SOME FEATURES AND LINKS MAY BE BROKEN IN THE MEANTIME.WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENENCE.

Fire Information and Smoke Trajectories

current fire information and interactive, while-you-wait trajectoriesproduced by: SMARTFIRE system from STI and USFS AirFire

Fire information collected from satellites and ground reports coupled with the ability to generate trajectories on-the-fly. Trajectories are done using the HYSPLIT model and National Weather Service weather forecasts.

Customized Fuels, Consumption, and Smoke Modeling

Interactive website that allows the user to choose their fuel loadings, fire consumption model, and more. Outputs are viewable at every step and can be changed before continuing. Model runs done while-you-wait, including smoke impacts. Currently single fire only.

Fuel Loadings

Fire Consumption

Fire Emissions

Plume Rise

Smoke Concentrations

National Coverage

Customizable - input your fire information, change any modeled values

Interactive - view results while you wait

Uses a variety of meteorological data including National Weather Service forecasts